Pataky Artworks Are In Demand

Did you know Tibor Pataky? A painter who moved to the Orlando area in the early 1930s, he had great influence on the artistic tenor of Central Florida until his death in 1979.

Do you have any of Pataky's artworks?

If the answer is yes to either or both of the above questions, Bob Lemon and Francis Martin Jr. would like to hear from you.

Lemon, 38, is a professor of art history at Rollins College, and Martin is on the board of visitors at Cornell Museum of Fine Arts at Rollins. They're planning a Pataky exhibition at the Cornell, tentatively for 1987.

''This would be Pataky's first major retrospective show in the area,'' said Martin, 35. He is an Orlando art appraiser and teacher who recently returned from California, where he earned his doctorate in art history at UCLA. ''We're hoping people will lend us their Pataky paintings or other artworks for the exhibit.''

Lemon and Martin can be reached at (305) 646-2526.

Air Force pilot Charles M. Heltsley Jr., 42, has been promoted to full colonel. He and his wife, Jan, and their three children usually make Orlando their headquarters between assignments. His present assignment: assistant deputy of operations at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M.

Still living in Orlando is his wife's mother, Mrs. J. Walter Hall, a former schoolteacher and widow of the Orlando municipal judge, who died in 1944.

The new colonel's brother, Thomas Heltsley, also lives in Orlando. Their late father was a colonel here at the old McCoy Air Force Base.

Three-dot data: Happy 50th anniversary to the Winter Park Benefit Shop Association. The 44 women of this organization run the Cottage Thrift Shop at 151 W. Lyman Ave., which is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Proceeds are used to buy clothing for families on welfare. . . . Lorraine and Louis Champeau of Winter Park were cruise passengers aboard the Mississippi Queen on the Mississippi River last week when actress Helen Hayes, a fellow passenger, celebrated her 85th birthday. . . .

Margaret Sauer, director of St. Andrew's Church Neighborhood Apostolate Office of Orlando, was recently selected as Central Florida Social Worker of 1985 by Central Florida chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. Winners of the Authors in the Park writing contest are scheduled to be announced Sunday in the books section of The Orlando Sentinel.

''We think the entire event was a ringing success,'' said Debby Barr, chairman of the first Authors in the Park, staged Oct. 12 in Winter Park.

It's estimated that between 5,000 and 10,000 persons dropped in on the all-day event. Will it become an annual event? ''The committee has a meeting this week to make that decision,'' said Barr. ''Right now it looks like yes.'' Sour root stock: It's true my father was born in Ireland, but I was born in Missouri -- a distinction worth noting at World Series time.